This is a comment by Valter Viglietti on the post “Boycott Successful: You Can No Longer Buy Porn Coupons at Groupon“.
“What do you think of the boycott on Groupon?”
I think it’s sad that those interest groups push to limit people’s freedom of expression and choice. It’s the kind of people who’d like to burn certain books and restore medieval practices. They’re fanatics and sick.
“Are there ways in which BDSM porn does harm women and children?”
In NO way BDSM harm children. BDSM basic rules are clear: it’s between consenting ADULTS. That those groups use the “children card” is revealing of both their ignorance and their attempt to manipulate people through emotional reactions.
Regarding women, people into BDSM choose to do that (be it for pleasure, money or both). So it’s their free choice as adults. Do we forbid miners to go into mines because their work is dangerous and harmful? No, it’s their choice. And, as a commenter already pointed out, in BDSM you get all genders and combinations; thus, why they complain about women being “harmed”, but they don’t care at all about submissive men?
“How can you tell the “good” porn from the “bad” porn?”
I’d say there’s no such thing as “bad” porn (unless you talk about taste, but that’s subjective 
). The only “bad” porn would be where people are forced against their will; but then it’s a felony and the law already exists about it. Again, when it’s within consenting adults, then it’s their business, and nobody else.
Once again, this kind of action reeks of B.S. and fanatism. The usual mentally disturbed* people scared by sexuality and anything “odd”, desperately trying to control the rest of the world.
* I’m not using the term “mentally disturbed” by chance: people who need to control everybody else is sick
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Amen to that. It’s sad people don’t focus much on the consenting part, the choice these actors and actresses make to star in such roles…Just because YOU don’t like it doesn’t mean someone ELSE wouldn’t love it.
Hear hear.
And, ultimately, such boycotts will just limit some kinds of sexual expression but not others. Groupon isn’t really taking the sex or the porn out of its coupon sponsors, just driving it a little more underground. People can incorporate just about any activity into their kinks. Are they thinking that a coupon for a dinner at a nice restaurant will never have anything to do with sex? A little waxing at the spa will never have anything to do with sex?
@Wellokaythen: “And, ultimately, such boycotts will just limit some kinds of sexual expression but not others.”
Such short-sightedness is proof of the boycotters’ ignorance and shallowness.
They do not understand (they don’t even try, actually); they don’t look for solutions, or real answers; they cannot see the big picture.
They only react histerically to their own knee-jerk emotions, putting a patch here and there, trying to calm down their panic.
They run around like beheaded chickens, making much ado about nothing.
They’re so inane and pathethic that, if they weren’t so damn annoying and – sometimes – destructive, they would inspire a pitiful sympathy.